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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through English Traits.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seldom-acknowledged factor in coloring people's experience is a large part of everyone's life?
(a) Upbringing.
(b) Faith.
(c) Career.
(d) Temperaments.

2. How is the soul different from the physical body, according to Emerson?
(a) It is lighter than the physical body.
(b) It must conform to the laws of God.
(c) It can fall prey to temptations of the heart, while the human heart can be steeled against pain.
(d) It is not bounded by time or space.

3. What does Emerson see evidence of everywhere he looks in society?
(a) Loyalty to European traditions.
(b) Lack of desire for independence.
(c) Decadence.
(d) Defiant reformist mentality.

4. How does Emerson say we become aware of the changes in our lives brought on by experience?
(a) By living our lives.
(b) Through prayer.
(c) In retrospect.
(d) By observing those same changes in other people's lives.

5. What natural phenomenon does Emerson use as a comparison for character in his essay "Character"?
(a) The wind.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) Ocean waves.
(d) A canyon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one aspect of the English Emerson admires?

2. What is the flower of the English aristocracy, according to Emerson?

3. How was Emerson received on his last trip to England?

4. How do we pass through life, according to "Experience"?

5. What direction is character aligned with, according to Emerson?

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